In English: Bad blogger! I have ignored my blog for way too long now. But to be honest, I really don’t feel that bad about it. I’m sure you survived. 😉 Part of the reason is that my husband and I went to Amsterdam for a long weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary, but mostly I just haven’t felt like it. I have been reading books instead. And in my seven years of blogging, I have learned that I cannot force my inspiration, but have to let it come of its own. I am starting to feel like blogging again now, though, so I will show you an old mani since I am still behind on my picture editing.
ILNP are known for their multichromatic flakies, and they are really amazingly beautiful polishes. Glory shifts between gold, copper, red, purple and green and is very lovely (and really quite autumney). The main colours are gold and red. I applies it by sponging it on, which worked well, but it also works fine to just paint these polishes as usual since they have quite dense glitters.

In English: You know those times when you have loads of polish but still can’t find something you feel like wearing? I had one of those days when I finally ended up choosing Masonic. I was tired of blingy glitter nails, but plain cremes felt boring. Masonic was the perfect in-between. It is muted, but not dull. Odd, but not too attention-grabbing. One of those polishes that look much better on the nails than you thought when you saw it in the bottle. And it really is brick red – partly because it contains real brick dust. The base is a deep brick red and it is full of glitters in red, burnt orange, bronze and black micro glitters. It has an incredible depth. I wore three coats, but you could probably get away with two. It does eat top coat, so I wore one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of quick-dry top coat (NPB Digital Flash) and still had to add another coat of Digital Flash the day after.

In English: Now that spring is finally here (at least occasionally, between the snowfalls), Sminkan and Emma has brought Holo Friday back to life. Nice! I am getting in the mood for holo again! I was in Prague with my mom and brother to celebrate mom’s birthday last week, and both me and mom wore F.U.N Lacquer Poweful, one of the polishes from their Sveta Sanders collaboration. I love the red colour, which is really nice and deep, but the holo could have been stronger. Sure, there are rainbows, but it is not like they’re hitting me in the face… The application was good and it was opaque in two coats. The sticker on the ring finger is from Kiss and was bought in San Francisco.

In English: There is something about the Depend Neon Attitude polishes that makes me want to do gradients with them. Here is another one… For this one, I used yellow Shocking Neon (70011), orange Glow Show Neon (70017), red Vivid Neon (70013) and purple Zap Up Neon (70015). Since I planned to join the 30 Days of Colour Challenge for the first time, and this week’s theme is ”birds”, I added some bird stickers from YouPolish. This is actually the same concept as a mani I did with the Depend Holo Fantasy polishes, but I think this one looks better since the colours are stronger and have better contrast.

I wore just the gradient matte for a day before I added the stickers. It was nice that way, too, but after adding the stickers, I also applied a couple of coats of top coat and I think it looked better that way.

The base for the mani is three coats of the yellow Shocking Orange, and the application was actually pretty good for a yellow neon. It would have needed another coat for full coverage, but it still covered really well for a light neon. And it was quite bright enough on its own and didn’t need a white base coat.

Sundays equals Nail Art Sunday at Lacky Corner’s, so I have dug up this one-year old manicure from the archive. I wore it to my birthday party last year to match the red tartan dress I sewed for the party. (You can see the fabric in one of the pictures.) Love is in My Cards is from Starlight, the OPI Christmas collection of 2015 and it is a classic red creme. I wore three coats. I made the half moons with gold nail foil, and I guess that I used nail vinyls for the shape.(The polish is a press sample.)

In English: I have understood that yellow is this year’s big it-colour on nails. I just read it in the latest issue of Daisy Beauty, but it was also obvious when I got the spring collections from OPI, Depend and CND and they all contained a pick-me-up in the form of a bright yellow polish. I really don’t mind, I quite like having yellow nails when I am in the right mood. Yellow polish does tend to have tricky formulas, though, and Banana Clips from the CND spring collection New Wave was no exception. The colour is gorgeous, but there is nothing else that is good about this polish. It was very difficult to get even, ti was sheer and it just didn’t want to spread out over the nails. Besides, I needed four coats before I just gave up and accepted it – and it was still uneven then, as you can see in my pictures! It is such a shame when the colour is so pretty. It is a bit warmer than many other yellow polishes, which I think makes it more wearable.
The accent nails were made with dry marbling on my silicone mat. I am really not an expert on this technique, but I just painted some polish on the mat and dragged a long, thin brush through it. I think it turned out quite well for a first try! The good thing about drag marbling on the mat is that you can just through away your failures instead of having to remove the polish from your nail. I used three CND Vinylux polishes; Banana Clips, Desert Poppy from last year’s spring collection and Rouge Rite from the autumn of 2015.
All the polishes were sent to me as press samples, and as you notice, it has not affected my opinions of them. 😉
So, what do you say about yellow nail polish? Do you like or dislike it? Will you pick up this trend?

In English: Since I was very busy sewing a tiny dress before the baptism on Saturday, I didn’t have much time for my nails and in the end I just made a very simple glitter gradient. The base is two coats of 495 from the Depend Rewind collection from last autumn, and the glitter is Lynnderella Change, which is a mixture of gold glitters in a clear base. 495 is a classic red creme with a slightly brownish tone. Nice, but not unique in any way. It applied well and was opaque in two coats. I wasn’t exactly extatic over this manicure, but it was good enough and at least it sparkled.
The Depend polish is a press sample.

In English: My nails are actually not that badly stained right now, so I took the opportunity to do a negative space skittle mani a while back, using five polishes from the Depend spring collection Game, Set, Match. I used (in order from thumb to pinkie) pinkish red 503, orange 506, purple 502, yellow 507 and light blue 511. All five applied well, even the yellow, that amazingly was opaque in one thick coat.
I used nail vinyls from nailvinyls.com, that seems to have closed now. (But it is not like it’s difficult to find straight vinyls.) It was a very bright and cheerful mani and I quite liked it. I did tire of it quite quickly, as always when I step out of my comfort zone.
The polishes were sent to me as press samples.

In English: I only made two Christmas manicures this year, and maybe I should show you this one before Christmas is officially over. I tried some water decals from What’s Up Nails for the first time and liked them a lot. The quality is quite similar to Milv decals, but these are opaque on their own, so you don’t have to have a base colour under it. I was a bit unsure on their opacity on how they would work, so I had a silver polish underneath, but it would have been better without it since some of the silver showed at the edges of the decals.

In English: How about showing my Christmas Eve manicure before the year is over? On Christmas Eve, I wore three polishes from the Depend Christmas Collection Season Sparkle; red Santa Wishes (70004), green Under the Mistletoe (70001) and gold Christmas Wonderland (70005). All are press samples. The base is Santa Wishes and Christmas Wonderland, and they both covered in two coats and were nice to apply.

For the Christmas ornaments, I used nail vinyls from What’s Up Nails and my silicone mat. This was really a very easy way to make decals, and I have already used the technique again to make decals for my New Year’s Eve manicure!